Category: 2. Middle East

By Jesus Calero

May 8 (Reuters) – Global perceptions of the U.S. have deteriorated for a second consecutive year and are now worse than views of Russia, an annual study on democracy published on Friday showed, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s…

By Idrees Ali and Hatem Maher

WASHINGTON/CAIRO, May 8 (Reuters) – U.S. ally the United Arab Emirates said its air defences were engaging missile and drone threats from Iran early on Friday in a further test of the shaky, month-long ceasefire…

By Mikhail Flores

CEBU, Philippines, May 8 (Reuters) – Leaders of Southeast Asian countries holding a summit on Friday are expected to thrash out a coordinated response to the impacts of the Middle East crisis, as they aim to ease pressure from an…

US President Donald Trump heads for a superpower summit with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping next week hoping the Iran war will not spoil the mood in Beijing.

Trump will be expecting a lavish welcome at the high-stakes meeting, which he delayed in…

Two Australian women “kept a female slave” after travelling to Syria in 2014 to support the Islamic State group, police said Friday after they were charged in Melbourne.

The pair returned to Australia on Thursday evening for the first time in…

By Renju Jose

SYDNEY, May 8 (Reuters) – Australian police said on Friday they had charged two women linked to the Islamic State extremist group with slavery offences after they returned overnight from Syria, where they had been detained in a…

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Thursday called for US authorities to relaunch their investigation into the Israeli military’s killing of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was gunned down while reporting for Al…

WASHINGTON, May 7 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Thursday three U.S. Navy destroyers transited out of the Strait of Hormuz under fire, adding that the American destroyers were not damaged but “great damage was done to Iranian…

By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart

WASHINGTON, May 7 (Reuters) – The U.S. military said it carried out retaliatory strikes on Iran on Thursday, targeting sites it said were responsible for attacking U.S. forces in what it called unprovoked hostilities…

By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart

WASHINGTON, May 7 (Reuters) – The U.S. military said it carried out retaliatory strikes on Iran on Thursday, targeting sites it said were responsible for attacking U.S. forces in what it called unprovoked hostilities…